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Robi Reed

Robi Reed

Mount Vernon, New York, USA

Robi Reed (born Robin Lynn Reed) is an American casting director and producer. She has over 50 films and television shows to her credit, including The Best Man, Soul Food, For Colored Girls, Love Jones, Set It Off, In Living Color and Girlfriends. She began her career working with the writer-director Spike Lee. His 1988 release, School Daze, was her first film as a casting director. She went on to cast Lee's Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues, Crooklyn, Clockers and Jungle Fever.

Reed is currently the vice president of talent and casting for original programming at Black Entertainment Television (BET), where she oversees talent and casting for scripted and non-scripted shows.

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Filmography
Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising poster
Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising
2022 • Self
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X' poster
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
2005 • Self
Poetic Justice poster
Poetic Justice
1993 • Woman on Couch
Harlem Nights poster
Harlem Nights
1989 • Woman Employee (as Robin Lynn Reed)
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Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989 • Self